Hostage to Pleasure by Nalini Singh (Psy-Changelings, Book 5)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Shards of Hope, Shield of Winter, and Heart of Obsidian. Lora Leigh calls Nalini Singh's Psy/Changeling series "a sensual, dangerous adventure not to be missed." Now, as the deadly Psy Council tightens its grip, a rebel Psy scientist finds herself at the mercy of a changeling who has sworn vengeance against her kind...

Separated from her son and forced to create a neural implant that will mean the effective enslavement of her psychically gifted race, Ashaya Aleine is the perfect Psy - cool, calm, emotionless...at least on the surface. Inside, she's fighting a desperate battle to save her son and escape the vicious cold of the PsyNet. Yet when escape comes, it leads not to safety, but to the lethal danger of a sniper's embrace.

DarkRiver sniper Dorian Christensen lost his sister to a Psy killer. Though he lacks the changeling ability to shift into animal form, his leopard lives within. And that leopard's rage at the brutal loss is a clawing darkness that hungers for vengeance. Falling for a Psy has never been on Dorian's agenda. But charged with protecting Ashaya and her son, he discovers that passion has a way of changing the rules...

Unrated Critic Reviews for Hostage to Pleasure

Red Room

Dorian is also a man consumed with rage, with hate against the Psy ever since his sister was butchered by the Psy serial killer Santano Enrique (Slave to Sensation) .His inability to shift did not keep him from tearing the man apart with his bare hands, and from that hatred comes the main source ...

Romance Reviews Today Blog

It has been over a century since the Psy Council instituted Silence, the program intended to eliminate all emotions in the Psy, thus ridding them of the unfortunate tendency a few had to become serial killers.